Preventable causes of death are causes of death related to risk factors which could have been avoided. The World Health Organization has traditionally...

ultimate causes, see preventable causes of death. Besides frequency, other measures to compare, consider and monitor trends of causes of deaths include...

negative. Death by misadventure List of causes of death by rate List of preventable causes of death Manner of death Proximate and ultimate causation Cause & Manner...

history, doctors who lacked the ability to understand causes of death attributed unknown causes to "old age." With modern medicine and medical machinery...

result of friendly fire. Death by misadventure List of accidents and disasters by death toll Preventable causes of death List of unusual deaths Manslaughter...

A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the...

A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone who is near death. It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial...

millions of people die of preventable causes. A 2004 study showed that about half of all deaths in the United States in 2000 were due to preventable behaviors...

declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official death certificate is usually required...

Other causes of death may also result in these effects, including fatal gunshots to the head, damage to major blood vessels, and violent death by poisoning...

A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often...

A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally...

Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies. Various images are used...

Dignified death, death with dignity, dying with dignity or dignity in dying is an ethical concept aimed at avoiding suffering and maintaining control and...

after the age of 5 these preventable causes level out between high and low-income countries.[citation needed] Biodemography Compensation law of mortality...

causes of death by rate List of preventable causes of death, a list of preventable causes of death by rate Cause of Death (novel), a 1996 crime fiction...

Causes of death by rate Potential causes of death Global catastrophic risks – Preventable causes of death Effects of the anticipation of death Death anxiety...

he causes eclipses by trying to eat the Sun or the Moon. Shingon (nat) (Burmese) Thongalel (Manipuri mythology) Pong Lalondong (Toraja), god of death Tagbayan...

Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function, which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain...

major causes of death. Selye proposed a unified non-specific approach to many causes of death. He demonstrated that stress decreases the adaptability of an...

A death notification or, in military contexts, a casualty notification is the delivery of the news of a death to another person. There are many roles...

A death knell is the ringing of a church bell to announce the death of a person. Historically,[where?][when?] it was the second of three bells rung around...

A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way. It is distinguished...

A death anniversary (or deathday) is the anniversary of the death of a person. It is the opposite of birthday. It is a custom in several Asian cultures...

Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many...

manifest aspects of death anxiety in differing degrees. Psychotherapist Robert Langs (1928–2014) proposed three different causes of death anxiety: predatory...

after death. Calcium is released into the cytosol due to the deterioration of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Also, the breakdown of the sarcolemma causes additional...

Museum of Death is a museum with locations on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. It was established in June 1995 by J. D....

classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors...

death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously...